Dr Michael Craig 2017-06-13 Person 5 5 0

I saw Dr. Craig in 2015 at the age of 21. Jubilee Health Centre (NHS) had all but given up when the numerous medications they had tried to combat my treatment-resistant Depression had failed, and I was perhaps a week away from suicide. When they finally suggested 'mindfulness' I almost broke down in anger and frustration there and then. Insulted and on my last legs, I agreed at my parents' request to see Dr. Craig to discuss the possibility of Electroconvulsive Therapy as a last resort - I was convinced that nothing else would work. As someone on the autism spectrum I required clarification of explanations at times, which he adapted to professionally and without fuss. I was ready to shell out the £3,000 required for ECT there and then, but after hearing of the NHS' failure the doctor explained that there were multiple 'last-line' drugs for Depression and showed me three pages of antidepressants Jubilee Health Centre had not even suggested. After that I returned to JHC, accompanied by a letter from Dr. Craig recommending the first drug combination on the aforementioned three-page list, and after some resistance on the part of JHC I was put on them. Two years later I am very much well again, still on the same cocktail of meds, both of which are prescribed on the NHS but were overlooked, for some bizarre reason. I am convinced that Dr. Craig saved my life, and I am very grateful to him.